How to buy an iPad, hike 2,600 miles, and watch free TV

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, News, Technology

4.3 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of over-the-air interactive television: David Pierce is joined by Alex Cranz and Janko Roettgers to talk about ATSC 3.0, the new standard for over-the-air broadcasting. The future of TV is up in the air Mitchell Clark joins the show to discuss his next endeavor. Mitchell's gear list Dan Seifert explains which iPad you should buy and how to make the iPad work better for writing by hand. The best iPad to buy in 2023 Yes, paper-feel screen protectors for the iPad are good This Apple Pencil clone provides 80 percent of the experience for a quarter of the price Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Over the Air, Interactive Television.
0:07.0	I'm your friend David Pierce and I'm currently on my way to drop off my three-month-old at
0:10.8	daycare.
0:11.8	We live about a mile from the daycare, which means on nice days I can walk.
0:16.7	But we also live in Washington, DC, and it's March, which means really there are never
0:21.3	any nice days.
0:22.6	So I'm pretty sure I bought a hybrid just so that I don't feel bad about driving the
0:27.1	0.9 miles to and from daycare every morning.
0:30.4	Anyway, we have a great show for you today.
0:32.5	We are going to talk about the latest thing in Over the Air television, which is both
0:36.2	much cooler and higher tech than you might think, and coming slower than you'd hope.
0:40.7	We're also going to talk about hiking gear because our own Mitchell Clark has some really
0:44.4	cool big plans coming up.
0:46.6	And then we're going to get deep into the weeds about iPads again because Dan C. Fert has
0:50.5	been doing some really cool hand-bredding experiments and I want to talk about them.
0:54.7	All that's coming in just a sec, but first I got to drop off the kid and then drive
0:58.8	the 0.9 miles home because I'm too cold and too lazy to walk.
1:03.6	This is the Verge Cast, soon as that.
1:07.0	Support for this podcast comes from Slack and they're looking to help make you and your
1:10.8	team work better.
1:12.4	Slack is a productivity platform that connects all your team members together instantly.
1:16.6	It's built to help your team with a host of features like huddles for quick check-ins
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